[Music] [Applause] hello and welcome to CNN 10 your daily 10 minutes of news where I simply tell you the what letting you decide what to think I'm Ki wire it's Thursday October 3rd happy Friday Eve we've got an action-packed show let's get right to it we start on the eastern coast of the United States where we have an update on the potential Longshore Port workers strike we told you about earlier this week now it is official the workers went on strike on Tuesday over two main issues increasing their wages and restricting automation as for pay
the long shoreman's Union is demanding a $5 per hour increase in pay for each year of the next six-year contract as for automation the workers want airtight language that the ports will not introduce automation or semi-automation which could potentially put them out of jobs if the port were to decide to use automated cranes or driverless trucks to shuttle goods from container ships in place of humans for their part the United States Maritime Alliance or usmx said its latest offer would boost doc workers wages by nearly 50% triple employer contributions to Employee Retirement plans and enhance
HealthCare coverage while also preserving existing safeguards against automation now the Port strike has major potential to disrupt the economy no Dock Workers means heavily imported goods like bananas for instance are not shipped that would in turn mean no profits for the companies that produce and ship them Longshore work can be grueling and the people working at ports are vital to getting some of the stuff we like to buy onto shelves in stores our Brian Todd has more on the potential impact of this strike long shoremen at the Port of Baltimore holding their ground and possibly
losing doing it once we exhaust our savings I mean we don't know what the next move is going to be a potentially damaging Port strike in the US has just begun thousands of Port workers in Baltimore and at about three dozen other facilities along the east coast and Gulf Coast have walked off the job the stakes are very high the potential for disruption is significant this strike the first at those ports in almost 50 years could disrupt the flow of almost half half the goods that come into the US that could lead to shortages then
higher prices what's going to be in short supply perishables obviously we can't we can't bring those in in advance so anything that's in the produce categories that comes in Banana's been talked about a lot cherries and other fruits that come in from South America and other places that'll be impacted right away with any stoppage Furniture household goods clothing Cars and auto parts could also be in shorter Supply and then get more expensive but a officials and Retail analysts say we should not rush to stores and stockpile Goods like many did during the covid pandemic we
don't want to panic the retailers and their Partners in the shipping business and other importers have done everything they can to mitigate any disruption so they've tried to bring things in they've got inventory already here on the east coast and near the population centers they've got inventory rerouted to the West Coast it'll come over by rail the workers from the international long shoreman's Association feel like they've fallen way behind behind other sectors in wages the workers are asking for more wages and also are concerned about the introduction of new technology which may replace um some
some of them the industry led by the United States Maritime Alliance says it's offered a fair wage increase and accuses the port Workers Union of negotiating in bad faith corporate has got to go this stoppage comes on the heels of successful strikes by the United Auto Workers Union and UPS employees workers at Boeing have been on strike for more than two weeks it's a mixed picture overall workers are doing and unions are doing better because the economy is better but they're not always winning next an update on the destruction and loss in the wake of
hurricane Helen in the US Southeast search and rescue efforts are still underway almost a week after Helen dumped a devastating amount of water on the region 40 trillion gallons of rain that's like more than all of the water in Lake Tahoe coming down on the region in just a matter of days that Unleashed unprecedented floods and landslides that destroyed towns and infrastructure what we're seeing there is heartbreaking the death toll from the storm continues to rise many people remain missing perhaps unable to leave their location or contact family as Communications infrastructure in some places are
nearly non-existent officials are working around the clock to clear roads in debris one nonprofit World Central Kitchen has been helping to feed folks who've been affected in the area even sending a helicopter to areas that are only accessible by air CNN's Gary tuckman takes us to see how and why it's still so difficult to access some of the areas that have been hit this area is known as Green River Cove it's right near Hendersonville North Carolina southeast of Asheville this road is treacherous even in the best of times and it rains it's even more treacherous
but now it has been devastated from the Run of the storm you can see the guard rail is gone the drop here off the side of the road which has been so heavily damaged is about 100 ft down cars are not supposed to be on here anymore there are also houses below we've talked to some people who live in the area they say they were trying to get down to the houses to see if people they know are still there because they haven't been able to find out what happened to those people but they weren't
able to hike down and neither are we we have been told that there have been helicopter rescues of people who live in the homes below but there's AB no way to know for sure if there are still people who are in those homes that have been damaged below us we decided to go down the hill farther and what we saw is the literal and figurative End of the Road the devastation of the storm look what it led to this is the street right here and you can see that the street just comes to an end
before plunging down here these Boulders that are right here the locals here say these Bowlers actually moved from the force of the storm all the houses in front of mine on the rivers side of the road are gone Brad McMillan and Nick wolf both live in this area their homes are okay but the experience has been traumatic we moved here because the Green River Narrows is an iconic piece of class five white water and we're Whitewater kayakers so we moved our whole lives down here for this area and these these riverbeds and and they've all
been completely destroyed and rearranged um so it's uh extremely emotional on a lot of different levels it took about 3 minutes to sink but only about 5 minutes for a team to stumble upon the sight of a shipwreck albeit 130 years later a Duo of Maritime experts got pretty lucky at the start of what was supposed to be a three-day ship Hunting Expedition in Lake Michigan finding a sunken Tugboat that had been missing since 1895 check check it out take a look at how a Wisconsin shipwreck missing for 130 years was found in 5 minutes
by a very lucky pair of ship hunting historians in 1895 the tugboat John Evanson was lost after colliding with a larger steamer in Wisconsin's Sturgeon Bay Canal the wreck was widely reported but search efforts didn't start until the 1980s and with no success a local dive Club even offered a cash reward for the discovery but still no luck then in September of 202 4 Maritime historians Brendan bad and Bob Jake combined historical records with modern search Tech and headed out on a planned 3-day Expedition but a mere 5 minutes after they started scanning this happened
I just screamed out boiler there's a boiler down there we we just couldn't believe it we actually hadn't even started our search we're just getting the equipment up and going I mean this is crazy the pair immediately marked and thoroughly documented the discovery eventually using more than 2,000 photos to have a full 3d rendering of the site created Pop Quiz Hot Shot scientifically known as vicy what physical trait do house cats share with sea lions fur teeth whiskers or claws whiskers is your answer here Vibes the long stiff hair around the mouth or face of
many mammals used to sense their environment [Applause] today's story getting a 10 out of 10 a sea lion rescue worth quite the celebration a curious sea lion wandered up onto land in California miles from the ocean and ended up stranded on the side of a highway officials came to its rescue and even got a police escort to a rehabilitation facility no word on how or why the mammal wandered so far from home all right everyone I want to give a special shout out today to Academy 1 Middle School in Jersey City New Jersey rise up
fun fact did you know that Jersey City is actually closer to the Statue of Liberty than New York City and it's home to Ellis Island an historic site where millions of people entered the US in the late 18 and early 1900s hope you're doing well up there and from wherever you might be joining me around the world hope you have an awesome day I'll see you right back here tomorrow on CNN 10
